DATE

MODULE

SPEAKER

EVENT

Assignment 1
Release

Week 1: How Todays City Evolved

15Mon1-1 Intro to Week 1
Sept
1-2 The Preindustrial City
1-3 Cities in the Industrial Revolution
1-4 Cities in 1950
1-5 Today's Regional City

Week 2: Ideas That Shape Cities

22Mon2-1 Intro to Week 2
Sept

2-2 Modernist City Design

2-3 Traditional City Design

2-4 Green City Design

2-5 Systems City Design

28Sun
Sept

Week 3: Tools for Designing Cities
29Mon3-1 Intro to Week 3
Sept
3-2 Investments in Infrastructure
3-3 Codes and Design Guidelines
3-4 Incentives for Better City Design
3-5 Negotiation for Common Goods

3-6 Discussion by the instructors about

3-Oct Fri selected
submissions for the first assignment

Week 4: Making Cities Sustainable

6-Oct Mon4-1 Intro to Week 4

Gary Hack
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett

Assignment 1 Due

Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Jonathan Barnett
Gary Hack

Assignment 2
Release
Peer Evaluation 1
Due

Christopher
Marcinkoski
Marilyn Jordan
4-3 Transportation as a Growth Armature
Taylor
4-4 Managing Water: Flooding and Scarcity Stefan Al
4-5 Green Infrastructure and Renewable
Stefan Al
Energy
4-2 Ecological Urbanism

Week 5: Cities in the Information Age

13Oct

Mon5-1 Intro to Week 5

5-2 Managing Energy Consumption
5-3 Intelligent Cities
5-4 Spatial Patterns that Promote Personal
Communication
5-5 Mixing Home, Work, Culture and
Recreation

19Oct

20Oct

23Oct

Gary Hack
Gary Hack
Gary Hack
Gary Hack

Sun

Assignment 2 Due

Week 6: Preserving Older Cities

Mon6-1 Intro to Week 6

6-2 Landmarks and Historic Districts

6-3 Adaptive Re-Use of Old Buildings
6-4 Preserving the Industrial Heritage

6-5 Discussion by the instructors about

Thu selected
submissions for the Second Assignment

Randall Mason
Stefan Al
Stefan Al

Week 7: Designing New Cities, Districts

and Neighborhoods
27Oct

Mon7-1 Intro to Week 7

7-2 The Idea of New Towns and Cities

Gary Hack

Part I
Part II
7-3 Urban Form of New Places
7-4 The Public Realm
7-5 Walkable Neighborhoods

Gary Hack
Gary Hack
Gary Hack

Week 8: The Challenges of Informal Cities

and
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
3-NovMon8-1 Intro to Week 8
8-2 Rapid Urbanization and Informal
Settlements
8-3 Land Tenure and Stability
8-4 Retrofitting Infrastructure and Services
8-5 Combating Poverty and Urban

David Gouverneur
Gary Hack
Gary Hack
Gary Hack

Peer Evaluation 2
Due
Assignment 3
Release

Deterioration

Week 9: Visionary Cities

10Mon9-1 Intro to Week 9
Nov
9-2 Technological Visions
9-3 Ecological Visions
9-4 Revolutionary Visions
9-5 The Self Organizing City

12Wed
Nov

Week 10: Concluding Comments

10-1 Discussion by the three instructors of
17Monselected
Nov
submissions for the Third Assignment

10-2 Concluding Remarks

20Nov Thu
28- Fri
Nov

Stefan Al
Stefan Al
Stefan Al
Stefan Al

Assignment 3 Due

Peer Evaluation 3
Due
Grades Posted